Thomas Hardy May Quotations

Did it never strike your mind that what every woman says, some women may feel?

Of love it may be said, the less earthly the less demonstrative. In its absolutely indestructible form it reaches a profundity in which all exhibition of itself is painful.

Some women's love of being loved is insatiable; and so, often, is their love of loving; and in the last case they may find that they can't give it continuously to the chamber-officer appointed by the bishop's license to receive it.

Teach me to live, that I may dread The grave as little as my bed. Teach me to die…

I may do some good before I am dead--be a sort of success as a frightful example of what not to do; and so illustrate a moral story.

People go on marrying because they can't resist natural forces, although many of them may know perfectly well that they are possibly buying a month's pleasure with a life's discomfort.